Originally Posted by
rkwaki
AZ by saying you are metabolically efficient I am assuming your intended pun is that you are having a difficult time leaning out, correct me if I am wrong.
No pun at all. When the physiologist started testing our team, most of us had focused a lot on higher intensity, and many didn't have what he calls a "metabolic equivalency point", meaning when they started pedaling at all, they were burning more carbs than fat. He had those people focus on base, and on eating fatty-protein rich diet, to push up the intensity level where they started burning more carbs than fat. Each and every one of those athletes set personal TT records once they had greater metabolic efficiancy. I wasn't tested by his group until after I had spent several weeks focused on base and diet, and so my initial test looked great. "Ready for structure" as he put it.
I have no trouble whatsover getting lean. I'm 6'6", 188#, and if I lose any more weight my wife says (jokingly, I
think) that she will divorce me.